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Elizabeth Barton Smith Payne Letter 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Payne, Elizabeth Barton Smith, 1817-1895
The collection contains letter of Elizabeth Barton Smith Payne, a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia during the American Civil War. The letter mourns loved ones killed in battle and mentions raids by soldiers, the capture and imprisonment of a brother, and a son's desire to join the army.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Elliott Family Correspondence 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Elliott family
Nine wartime letters of Joshua L. and Thomas A. Elliott, brothers from Hanover County, Virginia, and privates in Company B, 24th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War, written to Mary F. Page of Hanover County; together with a postwar letter from Oden B. Elliott to Page, and a letter from Page to her sister Elizabeth Mallory while a patient in Virginia's Eastern State Hospital (Williamsburg).
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

F. B. Deane, Jr. Letter, 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Deane, F. B., Jr. (Frances B.) (Deane & Son Foundry, Lynchburg, Va.)
The collection includes a letter from F. B. Deane, Jr. of Deane & Son Foundry, Lynchburg, November 23, 1864. The letter requests permission from Brigadier General John Echols to transport pork to Dublin and Abingdon, VA.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Smith, John Newton, 1843-1863
This Fenwick Civil War Materials Collection is a small collection of American Civil War-related materials, containing the correspondence of John Newton Smith, a private in Company I, 13th Virginia Cavalry and the sketchbook of Charles Gulager, a private in Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The materials were collected by Fenwick family members.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Frank Allen Letter 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Allen, Frank (Franklin L.), 1843-1938
This collection contains a letter from Frank Allen (1843-1938) to his sister, Sallie E. Allen, dated July 8th, 1864, and posted from Kanawha, West Virginia. He describes his company's retreat from Lynchburg and return to Camp Toland, while serving as a private in the Union Army in Company C, 34th Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

French Family Correspondence 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

French family
Seven letters from brothers Elias French, Henry French, and John French, all serving in Company H, 11th New Hampshire Infantry during the American Civil War, written to family members from various camps and hospitals in Maryland, Kentucky, and Virginia. Elias French writes of food and reports seeing two balloons--one bearing the Union Army's chief aeronaut Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, the other Confederate; John French writes from a Louisville, Kentucky, hospital, describing his wounds; Henry French mentions an increase in Confederate deserters.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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